Early Modern Art

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Early Modern Art
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Themes in Early Modern Art

1. Uncertainty/insecurity.
2. Disillusionment.
3. The subconscious.
4. Overt sexuality.
5. Violence savagery.

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Edvard Munch The Scream (1893)
Expressionism

• Using bright colors to express a particular
  emotion.
• the tendency of an artist to distort reality for
  an emotional effect

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Franz Marc Animal Destinies (1913)
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Wassily Kandinsky On White II (1923)
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Gustav Klimt Judith I (1901)
Secessionists

• Disrupt the conservative values of Viennese
  society.
• Obsessed with the self.
• Man is a sexual being, leaning toward despair.

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Gustav Klimt The Kiss (1907-8)
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Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer -Gustav Klimt, 1907

• When the Nazis took over Austria, it was
  confiscated.
• Maria Altmann, niece of Bloch-Bauer was named as
  one of the inheritors of his estate in 2006.
• Painiting came to America.
• Sold in June 2006 for

135,000,000
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Henri Matisse Open Window(1905)
FAUVE

• The use of intense colors in a violent, and
  uncontrolled way.
• Les Fauves Wild Beast.

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Woman with a Hat by Henri Matisse, 1905.
It is believed that the woman in the painting was
Matisse's wife, Amelie
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Georges Braque Violin Candlestick (1910)
CUBISM

• The subject matter is broken down, analyzed, and
  reassembled in abstract form.
• Cezanne ? The artist should treat nature in terms
  of the cylinder, the sphere, and the cone.

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Georges Braque Woman with a Guitar(1913)
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Georges Braque Still Life LeJeur (1929)
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Pablo Picasso Les Demoiselles dAvignon (1907)
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Picasso Studio with Plaster Head (1925)
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Pablo Picasso Woman with aFlower(1932)
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Guernica, Pablo Picasso, 1937
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Destruction of Basque Capital, 1937
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Paul Klee Red White Domes (1914)
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Paul Klee Senecio (1922)
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George Grosz Grey Day(1921)
DaDa

• Ridiculed contemporary culture traditional art
  forms.
• The collapse during WW I of social and moral
  values.
• Nihilistic-a complete rejection of all systems of
  authority, morality, normatively.

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George Grosz The Pillarsof Society(1926)
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Marcel Duchamp Nude Descending a Staircase(1912)
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Salvador Dali Soft Construction with Boiled
Beans (Premonition of Civil War), 1936
Surrealism

• Late 1920s-1940s.
• Came from the nihilistic genre of DaDa.
• Influenced by Freuds theories on psychoanalysis
  and the subconscious.
• Confusing startling images like those in dreams.

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Salvador Dali The Persistence of Memory (1931)
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Salvador Dali The Apparition of the Face and
Fruit Dish on a Beach (1938)
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Salvador Dali Geopoliticus Child Watching the
Birth of a New Man (1943)
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Walter Gropius Bauhaus Building (1928)
Bauhaus

• A utopian quality.
• Based on the idealsof simplified formsand
  unadornedfunctionalism.
• The belief that the machine economy could deliver
  elegantly designed items for the masses.
• Used techniques materials employed especially
  in industrial fabrication manufacture ? steel,
  concrete, chrome, glass.

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Walter Gropius Lincoln, MA house (1938)
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Garcon a la Pipe - or Boy with a Pipe, 1905

• Auctioned in 2004 for
• 104,000,000